The Piano Lesson

still able to understand his amazing talent with a piano and by the age of 7 he was in Piano lessons. At the age of 10 or 11 Debussy had entered into the Paris Conservatoire, within his time there his instructors and his fellow students were awed by his obvious talent but often found his musical innovation strange. He was known for not only being a phenomenal pianist but an outstanding sight reader. In 1880, Nadezhda Von Meck hired Claude to teach piano to her children, this marked the…

She got a job at a bar playing the piano, but no matter what genre she played she could not please the audience. She was told that she had to sing in order to keep her job, and that is how it began. She changed her name to Nina Simone so that her parents would not know what she was doing…

Sir Edward Elgar was an English composer born in Broadheath, Worcestershire to “a Worcester piano tuner and music-shopkeeper and his Roman Catholic wife” in 1857 (Kennedy). He learned the violin, piano, and organ at a young age (Kennedy). Beyond his violin lessons he had no formal training. However, he received much “praise as a child for piano improvisations” (McVeagh). After the age of 16, he left his father’s business and was freelance musician for the rest of his life (McVeagh). He took on…

One of the most well-known themes in Star Wars is The Imperial March. “Frederic Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2, nicknamed the Funeral March, is where Williams found Vader’s melody. To give the Imperial Death March some momentum, Williams turned to a different work about outer space, Gustav Holst’s "The Planets," specifically "Mars, the Bringer…

be both obvious and obscure. The situation that my mother forced my sister to learn the piano would be a typical obvious script writing as Borthwick and Davidson (2002) states that parents who had music education in childhood tend to make children receive the same no matter if they had positive or negative experiences. Though, this raises a question to discuss: why only my sister was taken to the piano lesson, and why as written above, there was no desire of involving in music in myself before…

d'Assier, was 18 years younger than Ilya and the second of his three wives. Both Ilya and Alexandra were trained in the arts, including music, which was a necessity; living in a remote area of Russia posed a need for entertainment. Tchaikovsky began piano lessons at age five and within three years he had become as skilled at reading sheet music as his teacher. However, despite their initial support, in 1850 Pyotr’s parents decided to send him to the Imperial School of…

himself covering for him in the Riverboat Orchestra, and they soon gave Henderson a job as a full time replacement, helping him land a job with the fledgling Black Swan label in 1921–1923.[5] Throughout the early and mid-1920s, Henderson provided solo piano accompaniment for many blues singers. He also led the backing group for Ethel Waters during one of her national tours.[6] Prior to mid-1923, Henderson's group was not technically a jazz band yet (more like a dance band), though its music was…

will be about the famous German composer Hans Florian Zimmer. First I will talk about some basic info on his background. Hans Zimmer is 56 years old and he is a world renowned composer born in Frankfurt, Germany. Hans never really had any musical lessons or training. Hans really is self- taught. He knows how to play at least 6 different instruments fluently. This is mainly because of his father's death. At such a young age Hans had to deal with a lot of heartache from losing his father. But it…

country dance band. When Evelyn turned eight she began having symptoms of hearing loss. Her ears progressively worsened. At the age of 11 she was required to wear a hearing aid. Evelyn was a musically gifted child and was a superior at playing the piano and clarinet. Evelyn had perfect pitch, and a great ability to identify or sing a note by ear. After wearing a hearing aid a few months she thought it got in her way, so she proceeded without wearing it.…

‘’When i'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me feel alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.”~Alicia keys. Alicia keys cook is best known for “alicia keys. She is an american singer, songwriter, Record producer and actress. She has impacted people through her music, also due to her to her lyrics it can be very inspirational.She is a co- founder of keep a child alive, which is an organization that…